>>1015616 Covid

>>1015577 (You) have no power here.

Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game https://archive.vn/kZgnV <The first cracks are starting to show in Netflix’s push into gaming. First reported in Game File and confirmed by Netflix, the streaming company has quietly closed of one of its studios, the first in the three years since the company began its foray into gaming. <According to Game File, the shuttered studio was known as Blue. In 2022, Netflix announced it hired former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny to run the studio. Since then, Blue had brought on a number of game industry veterans with experience working on high profile franchises including Halo and God of War. Reportedly, Blue was developing a multi-platform AAA game for an original IP but was closed before the game could be announced or released. <Netflix has released a steady stream of games on its platform since the beginning of its gaming experiment in 2021. Though it started with a small handful of hyper-casual mobile games, Netflix’s offerings have expanded to include mobile exclusive ports of iconic games like Grand Theft Auto and Hades its own internally developed exclusives like Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. <Netflix has also acquired or spun-up a number of studios to support its gaming pipeline. The most recent additions were a mobile game studio in Helsinki, a new studio in southern California, and Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox. But with the closure of Blue, Netflix’s trend of expansion may be over as well as its grander AAA ambitions.

>>1015574 Imagine how productive the economy will be when we lay off 100% of all workers!

>>1031153 It would be hilarious if it wasn't a proven fact that video games became money laundering schemes. Someone got funding for this, stole the money, and declared "expenses" with the studio in order to cover the theft.

>>1031153 Bet concord failure plays a part in this

>>940754 >Pic Sauce on the anime desu

>>1031198 Kakumeiki Valvrave/Valvrave the Liberator

>>947819 With how fucked shit is currently, do you honestly think that will happen? That will kick off a riot at this point, considering people are already hurting due to the economy. Making it worse will only make people more pissed off, as the old saying goes, a civilization is always three meals away from a revolution. Bread is too fucking expensive, and the circuses are fucking ruined. Whole thing is primed for a boogaloo across the planet at this point.

>>1031208 No one is truly hurting due to the economy, people are still spending all of their income on taylor swift tickets. The world isn't as bad as the internet makes it out to be, though I really wish it was.

>>1031169 That's embezzlement, not money laundering.

>>1031209 >people are still spending all of their income on taylor swift tickets. Countries in the middle of Civil Wars always have people who still go about their daily lives like there's no difference in the world.

>>1031226 Nigeria has been in several low-level civil wars for 15 years (Islamist insurgencies and the bandit conflicts). If you were to go to Ibadan or Port Harcourt you'd never know that. If you've ever met a Nigerian they probably haven't even talked about the conflicts. Beyond everybody being used to them, they don't actually impact the average person's life much unless you live in an active conflict zone like Zamfara. Most people form their concept a civil war through pop culture and personal anxieties, with little context to the reality of them. I remember a story about the Balkan wars, where people would scurry behind patrolling APCs on their way home from grocery shopping.

>>1031226 Also, people in the middle of an economic collapse consume entertainment even more rapidly than they did during booms. It's why the Golden Age of Hollywood ran through the Great Depression.

>>1031253 I think it all depends on 2 things. Need and free time. If a need is satisfied then the person will not search out a new thing. If Greg has piss beer n1 that he has been drinking his entire life and nothing changes about the beer then Greg will likely continue to drink piss beer for eternity. Normalfag are satisfied with tik tok and phone gatcha, some of the hardcore nerds among them play League of Legends. I'm starting to think that normalfags have been pushed into their own corner of the market that doesn't include even the sloppiest of slop like Asscreed. So its an effective gap where normalfags eat shit and "gamers" play shit that is more acceptable like Spess Marine 2 and in between is all the shit that is crashing and burning this year. Free time, people want to play games and if they have 40 min of free time a day then gatcha is enough got them. But give them enough time and they start getting bored. During the depression there were a lot more likely people who were jobless so they had to fill their time somehow. In my opinion probably one of the biggest sins of modern society is the lack of free time. It effect creativity, moral and even birth rates. I remember reading that during covid Japan's birth rate significantly increased.

>>1031153 fucking how? I know you gotta cut your losses but what the fuck did they even do?

>>1031262 >one of the biggest sins of modern society is the lack of free time. It effect creativity If you're a wageslave maybe, most of the "creative" types, of which there are fucking tons on the internet, seem to have too much free time these days. I personally have started to burnout on pop culture and being on the internet all the time, but there's nothing for me outside either so I'm just stuck wasting time until I get approached by an opportunity, might as well be with the shit I'm familiar with.

>>1031288 Seems like you need an autistic time sink.

>>1031270 Going by this graphic they probably hired to many retards

>>1031209 >It won't happen Until it does.

>>1031304 It even says "one time expenses," so unless you know what those are you can't really use that as evidence of much.

>>1031304 These are the only games they released in that year As well as To be announced games >>1031329 It says one time outsourcing expenses was eliminated for 2022

>>1031262 I don't know that normalfags even exist anymore. Pop culture is effectively dead, so everyone fits into one little sub-genre of consumption or another. Hell, popular music now is just old stuff from the eighties and aughts. I don't even mean covers or rip-offs of old stuff; it's just the actual old stuff. Every old movie property gets rebooted. TV shows get brought back, sometimes with the original cast. Video games get new installments every other year until they are nothing but shambling zombie corpses. Pop is literally just reruns. Who is buying that?

>>1031377 There's a music critic I was reading who said the idea of a #1 is basically dead. He made a really great point: What's the #1 song right now? You probably don't know, nor have you known many #1 songs of the last few years. Right now it's this, a song you've probably never heard by an artist you've probably don't know. It sounds like that country-pop-rap blend that every song on the radio turned into. And that's not even to say that good music isn't being made anymore, in fact there's a huge amount of good music being made and it's easier to find than ever. That's probably why a #1 hit is culturally meaningless now, everybody is too busy listening to their own curated little playlists and favorite artists to care what's 'big'.

>>1031503 Kek, when I heard the music I instantly knew the singing would be mumble shit with that exact style of voice.

>>1031503 >a simple chord progression that has been done in blues music a hundred-thousand times in the past hundred years >vapid lyrics about going to a club and getting drunk >remarkable only in its familiarity Reruns... it's all reruns. Seen it, taped it, got tired of it thirty years ago.

>>1031503 >>1031518 The funny thing is that even nigger rap moved beyond this shit 20 years ago.

>>1031377 >>1031503 We're still in transintion phase that keeps being dragged along due to power/financial retention and higher age expectancy, where a bunch of out of touch Boomers and Gen Xers are still calling the shots while living in a post Old Media world.

>>1031503 >Indie folk country with mumble rap mixed in Straight out of hell

>>1031503 >That's probably why a #1 hit is culturally meaningless now, everybody is too busy listening to their own curated little playlists and favorite artists to care what's 'big'. That is a good thing though. The "number one" song is not determined by corporations paying for shilling anymore. Every individual has his own selection and rank of songs. No more centralized shilling nor public opinion manipulation.

>>1031528 Arguably yes, thanks to shit like spotify or soundcloud, people look for the stuff they are interested in and find son they like on their own + algorythm, instead of whatever the radio stations are playing.

>>1031533 The problem with the radio and a lot of these services is that there's too many damn commercials.

Sony President, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki says the PS5 Pro pricing has not had a negative impact and that it is aimed at hardcore users #PS5Pro >"Hardcore users are the target of this hardware" >"In terms of the pricing many people made different comments on that, but pricing on PS5 pro has not had a negative impact I don't think." https://archive.ph/ir1Cb https://xcancel.com/Genki_JPN/status/1854839684054368505 Are you a bad enough dude to own a PS5 Pro?

https://archive.ph/wip/lFtRo >Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles >"We have to start interrogating what the purpose is of a proprietary console, and whether that can continue to be true." The pessimism among industry professionals is now incredibly obvious. Sony confirmed the PS5 is at least past the halfway point of its lifespan already (the best possible way to view that is end of production in 2027, anything else gives it less lifetime) and it never got software sales (Sony's quarterly reports bundle PS4 and PS5 software, but the numbers are stagnant since PS4 only days).

>>1047455 These people are fucking imbeciles, you don't get more proprietary than jewtendo and they do great for themselves, Soyny ruined themselves because of what they did to Japan.

>>1047455 Just like the (never happened) "crash" of 83. It is a bunch of jews not being able to sell garbage, and calling it the end of the world, while actually competent people are thriving and doing just fine outside of jewish control.